Word: slack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take up the slack? Conservatives, pointing out that nongovernmental groups financed legal services in earlier times, contend that private practitioners can represent clients now served by poverty lawyers. The A.B.A. insists that the demand for services is too great and that most lawyers are inexperienced in the types of cases that legal services attorneys specialize in. As for local government support, states and cities are hardly likely to dip deeper into their own pinched purses, especially not to fund groups that are often suing them. Jim Martin, director of the West Virginia program, is pressing his state legislature...
Meanwhile, South House shut out a Timothy Dwight-Silliman 14-0, while Winthrop coasted past Trumbull-Saybrook, 13-0. 'Throp signal caller Charlie Slack helped put the game out of reach with a 1-yd, quarterback sneak and 20-yd, pass to Tony Hatch, leaving his position while members of the defense tried out the backfield for themselves. Just to make it clear that the game was for fun, the team did a post-game workout of intensive mudsliding...
...afternoon's premier event--a contest which remained scoreless through four quarters--saw Winthrop squeak past Currier 8-6 in overtime when quarterback Charlie Slack completed a two-point conversion on his one-yard keeper into the endzone...
...Mike Ealy's seven-yard toss to halfback Ronnie Townsend, who was standing alone in the endzone put Currier temporarily in the lead, 6-0. The difference in the game was Currier's inability to get the posttouchdown two-pointer. On fourth down, Winthrop's last scoring opportunity, a Slack-to-tightend Cormac McLoud touch-down connection tied it at six. Slack's fall into the endzone secured the Winthrop victory...
...question we'd like every admissions officer to ask himself is, 'Does this test [the SAT] do me enough good to make it worth all of the negative aspects?'" says Slack. "And we think the answer...